Method for recording a port number of a servo track writer

• US 6,108,156 A
• Filed: 05/27/1998
• Issued: 08/22/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Cha, Duck-Jun, Lee, Jae-Sung
• Primary Examiner(s): Loomis, Paul
• Assistant Examiner(s): DAVIDSON, DAN
• Application Number:
  US09/084,588
• Time in Patent Office: 818 Days
• Field of Search: 360/75, 360/55, 360/69, 360/31, 700/108, 700/109, 702/81, 702/84
• US Class Current: 360/75
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 5/59655 Sector, sample or burst servo format

Abstract

A method for recording the port number of a servo track writer for efficiently managing a manufacturing process of a magnetic storage device. In a manufacturing process of a hard disk drive having a disk as a recording medium, the disk including a data band for recording user data and a plurality of protection bands, the port number of a servo track writer is recorded in at least one of the bands during servo information writing in the method, so that the port number can be read and used for the manufacturing process.

Claims

1. A servo track writer port number recording method, comprising the steps of:

providing a port number for a servo track writer; and

recording the port number of the servo track writer in a predetermined area of a recording medium of a magnetic storage device during servo information writing.

2. The servo track writer port number recording method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

reading the port number recorded in the recording step from the recording medium; and

analyzing an efficiency of a manufacturing process of the magnetic storage device using the port number recorded.

3. The servo track writer port number recording method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the predetermined area of the recording medium is located in a servo sector of the recording medium.

4. The servo track writer port number recording method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the predetermined area of the recording medium is located in a data sector of the recording medium.

5. The servo track writer port number recording method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the predetermined area of the recording medium is located in a servo sector of the recording medium.

6. The servo track writer port number recording method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the predetermined area of the recording medium is located in a data sector of the recording medium.

7. A servo track writer port number recording method, comprising the steps of:

providing a port number for a servo track writer; and

recording the port number of the servo track writer in at least one of a plurality of bands of a disk of a hard disk drive during servo information writing, the plurality of bands including a data band for recording user data and at least one protection band.

8. The servo track writer port number recording method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the port number of the servo track writer is recorded in a servo sector in at least one protection band, the at least one protection band including at least one of an inner protection band and an outer protection band.

9. The servo track writer port number recording method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the port number of the servo track writer is recorded in a gray code in a servo sector of the disk.

10. The servo track writer port number recording method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the port number of the servo track writer is recorded in a servo sector in the data band of the disk.

11. The servo track writer port number recording method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the port number of the servo track writer is recorded in a data sector in the data band of the disk.

12. The servo track writer port number recording method as claimed in claim 11, further comprising the steps of:

reading the port number of the servo track writer from the data band; and

re-recording the port number of the servo track writer in a maintenance cylinder of the disk, before data writing.

13. The servo track writer port number recording method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the port number of the servo track writer is recorded in a data sector in at least one protection band of the disk, the at least one protection band including at least one of an inner protection band and an outer protection band.

14. The servo track writer port number recording method as claimed in claim 7, further comprising the steps of:

reading the port number recorded in the recording step from the recording medium; and

analyzing an efficiency of a manufacturing process of the hard disk drive using the port number recorded.

15. The servo track writer port number recording method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the port number of the servo track writer is recorded in a servo sector in at least one protection band of the disk, the at least one protection band including at least one of an inner protection band and an outer protection band.

16. The servo track writer port number recording method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the port number of the servo track writer is recorded in a gray code in a servo sector of the disk.

17. The servo track writer port number recording method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the port number of the servo track writer is recorded in a servo sector in the data band of the disk.

18. The servo track writer port number recording method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the port number is the servo track writer is recorded in a data sector in the data band of the disk.

19. The servo track writer port number recording method as claimed in claim 18, further comprising the steps of:

reading the port number of the servo track writer from the data band; and

re-recording the port number of the servo track writer in a maintenance cylinder of the disk, before data writing.

20. The servo track writer port number recording method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the port number of the servo track writer is recorded in a data sector of at least one protection band in the disk, the at least one protection band including at least one of an inner protection band and an outer protection band.

21. A servo track writer port number recording method for use in a manufacturing process of a magnetic storage device, comprising the steps of:

recording a port number of a servo track writer in a predetermined area of a recording medium during servo information writing;

reading the port number recorded in the recording step from the recording medium; and

analyzing an efficiency of a manufacturing process for the magnetic storage device using the port number recorded.

22. A servo track writer port number recording method for use in a manufacturing process of hard disk drive having a disk as a recording medium, the disk including a plurality of bands, the plurality of bands including a data band for recording user data and a plurality of protection bands, the method comprising the steps of:

recording a port number of a servo track writer in at least one of the plurality of bands of the disk during servo information writing;

reading the port number recorded in the recording step from the recording medium; and

analyzing an efficiency of a manufacturing process for the hard disk drive using the port number recorded.